TELEGRAM TO J. V. STALIN

Written:Written on June 16, 1919Published:First published in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 50.

      Printed from the decoded text.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1975,

      Moscow,Volume 44,

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StalinSmolnyPetrograd

Accordingto information from the sailors who captured
Krasnaya Gorka, an English naval force of twenty-three
vessels from Libau is expected to reach Kronstadt today,the 16th. I trust you have taken all measures. Send me a
map of the
front.[1]

[1]Thecounter-revolutionary mutiny at Fort Krasnaya Gorka, which
broke out during the night of June 12, 1919, was put down
during the night of June 15. Fort Seraya Loshad, which had joined
the rebels, also fell during the day of June 16. Only a few hours
before the mutiny was suppressed, the Soviet command received
information that a British naval force of 23 ships had set out
from Libau to aid the Krasnaya Gorka mutineers. In view of thefact, however, that the Soviet fleet dominated the sea approaches
to Petrograd, the British command did not venture to begin
large-scale operations and was compelled to limit the activities of its
squadron to isolated actions.